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Dec. 4 My Newest Addition December 3, 2009

This is my newest addition, the animated Parkway Diner sign. It is from Micro-Structures. It only took about 15 minutes to install. I had to cut a 1" slot for the connector and ribbon cable in the Paper Mache and tunnel from the back through about 6" of foam. It is powered from three AAA batteries now but I intend to build a 4.5 volt regulator and power it from 12 volts. The Diner portion is lit continuously and the lights around it are in chase mode. The pink pointers chase inside to out also.

When viewed on a 19" monitor at 800 x 600 resolution everything is very close to actual size.

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My First HO Locomotive

Way back in the fall of 1952 I bought my first HO Locomotive, it was a MDC/Model Roundhouse 0-6-0 Switch Engine Kit, I still have it and it is still in prefect condition. It cost $6.85 back then, I used my Newspaper Route money to purchase it from H&H Hobby Shop in El Paso Texas.

My Greatest Railroad Treasure

It's a Fawcett Book Number 133, it cost 45¢ in 1951. That was a lot of money in 1951, a 24 bottle case of Cokes was 65¢ back then. There is an article starting on page 28 on John Allen's railroad, there is only 4 pages on his layout but I was hooked on HO scale from that day on.

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